Slovenia, sentence 33
From Wikipedia, «Slovenia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
As the western empire weakened in the 5th and 6th centuries, the area was subject to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes during their incursions into Italy.
Who acts: area, Huns, tribes · What happens: weaken, be, invade, incur · To what, where: western empire, Italy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovenia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (area, Huns, tribes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 empire | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 empire | det |
| 3 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 empire | amod |
| 4 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 subject | obl |
| 5 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 empire | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 centuries | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 centuries | det |
| 8 | 5th | 5th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 centuries | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 6th | cc |
| 10 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 5th | conj |
| 11 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weakened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 empire | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 area | det |
| 14 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 subject | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 subject | cop |
| 16 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 invasions | case |
| 18 | invasions | invasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subject | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Huns | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Huns | det |
| 21 | Huns | Hun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 invasions | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tribes | cc |
| 23 | Germanic | germanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tribes | amod |
| 24 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 invasions | conj |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 27 incursions | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 incursions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | incursions | incursion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subject | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 Italy | case |
| 29 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 incursions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | participle | the western empire not said here | century | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the area | during tribes's incursions into Italy | as the western empire; to invasions by the Huns and Germanic tribes; subject property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | invade | the Huns | nom invasion «act transitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 4 | incur | tribes = tribe | Italy | nom incursion «act transitive»: poss=agent into=place |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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